A Delta jet takes off at LaGuardia Airport, Aug. 8, 2016 in the Queens borough of New York City.

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At a Glance

Delta Air Lines said it had no mainline cancellations in November – a first for the company.

Favorable weather conditions likely played a role in preventing flight cancellations during the month.

For the first time in its history, Delta Air Lines didn't have a single mainline flight cancellation in the month of November, the company announced Monday.

Delta said it flew nearly 85,000 mainline flights in November without any system cancellations, and more than 82 percent of flights arrived on time, according to a release. The weather certainly cooperated – few large storm systems were present in the United States, keeping the skies mostly clear.

"High pressure dominated much of the United States throughout November, leading to mainly dry and mild conditions for a large swath of the nation," said weather.com meteorologist Brian Donegan. "The Northwest saw the most active weather last month as storm systems from the Pacific Ocean targeted the region."

Delta is hoping the year will end with good news despite multiple incidents that left travelers stranded, both earlier in 2017 and last year as well. In early April, some 3,500 flights were canceled during a five-day stretch as severe weather rolled through Atlanta, where Delta's headquarters are located, according to CNN Money. The worst of the weather hit Wednesday, April 5, and the airline didn't recover fully until the next Monday, the report added.

It was "one of the most challenging recovery efforts we've seen as an airline," a Delta operations leader told CNN Money.

Delta also had a pair of outages, one in late January and another in August 2016, when technical outages forced hundreds of flights to either be grounded or canceled, according to a separate CNN Money report.

In Monday's release, Delta's officials said its flawless November is a sign the airline's problems have been fixed.

"Our employees are steadfastly committed to delivering on Delta's promise to be a safe and reliable airline and we're proud of the progress we've made to offer our customers an industry-leading global operation," said Gil West, Delta's Chief Operating Officer, in the release. "We are resolved to continue to improve, to set and break more performance records, and make the experience even better for our customers."

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